Yet to our cultural forebears in ancient Greece and Rome, prophecy was anything but marginal; it was in fact the basic medium for recalling significant past events and expressing hopes for the future, and it offered assurance that divinities truly cared about mere mortals. Prophecy also served ...
There does not seem to be connection to prostitution or slavery and musicians wither in ancient Egypt or in ancient Greece either, although slaves did play musical instruments. If the word pillagu or ‘harp’ is related to concubinage in Hebrew, then this information sheds a curious light on...
A major city in ancient Greece, known for its diverse population and cultural influences, which affected the church's practices.3. ProphetsIndividuals in the early church who were given the gift of prophecy, which involved speaking messages from God to the people.4. Corinthian ChurchThe ...
warning His people of what was in store for them if they didn’t repent and turn back to Him. In ancient Greece, the Cynics were similar to our holy fools—they believed in a simple life and rejected the values of the day—riches, greed and immorality were their particular targets. Perh...
“The emergence of the Arameans occurred during the Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BC),which saw great upheavals and mass movements of peoples across the Middle East, Asia Minor, The Caucasus, East Mediterranean, North Africa, Ancient Iran, Ancient Greece and Balkans, leading to the genesis ...
He claims, for instance, that "there are practically no references to ancient authors, or, for that matter, the world of ancient Greece and Rome in any of his work or later correspondence." One need only mention the titles "Prometheus," "Poseidon," "The Silence of the Sirens," and "...
The Israelites were an ancient people who lived in what is today the modern-day state of Israel (which derives its name from that ancient society). They established the Kingdom of Israel. Much of the Israelites' history is unknown for sure by historians due to a lack of contemporary written...
She finds the roots of prophetic ethos in ancient Greece's Delphic oracle. From there, she traces its hybridization with other ethe in Enlightenment England, which produced the scientific-prophetic ethos we know today, before considering the challenges and changes to that ethos produced in ...
Byline: Robert Royal, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMESAround the time that Homer was composing the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" in ancient Greece, an even more mo-mentous set of texts was beginning to come into existence in the Middle East. By the time that Socrates, Plato and Aristotle began ...
to work. The ancient Arabs, however, were keenly interested in poetry and oratory so a considerable body of this kind of literature has been handed down. When one compares the ancient political and cultural levels of Mecca and Jerusalem, the culture of Mecca was less sophisticated. It was ...